ISPRS International Journal of GeoInformation – Report 2011
Wolfgang KAINZ
Editor-in-chief
Introduction
In December 2010 I was approached by the President of ISPRS, Orhan ALTAN, whether to accept the
function of editor-in-chief of the newly founded open access journal “ISPRS International Journal of
Geo-Information”. After brief consultation and consideration I accepted the function. In the beginning
of 2011 several colleagues were approached to become members of the editorial board. The process
took until late spring and currently the journal has 26 members of the editorial board (a list of the
members is attached as Annex 1).
On 4 May 2011 the journal was discussed at the Council meeting in Antalya.
The contract with MDPI was signed on 8 August 2011; an editorial was published on 8 September
2011. This is the official date that the journal is visible on the Web. Mr. Elvis WANG of MDPI was
assigned as assistant editor and is the primary contact to MDPI.
Promotion of Journal
The journal has been promoted (will be promoted) at the following events:
Event
International Symposium on Dynamic and
Multi-Dimensional GIS, DMGIS 2011
Date and Venue
17 – 18 October 2011,
Shanghai, China
Remarks
Promotion only, the
proceedings were already
arranged otherwise
United Nations International Conference on 22 – 25 November 2011, Selected papers will be
Space-based Technologies for Disaster
Beijing, China
published as special issue in
Risk Management
spring 2012
International Symposium on Remote
15 16 December 2011,
Promotion only, the
Sensing and GIS Methods for Change
Hong Kong, China
proceedings were already
Detection and Spatio-Temporal Modeling,
arranged otherwise
CDSM 2011
A flyer should be produced that can be distributed at conferences and relevant events or through the
ISPRS web page, e-bulletin, and other means.
Discussion with MDPI
On 21 November 2011 I had a meeting with Mr. Elvis WANG in Beijing. The major results of the
meeting are summarized as follows:
First Issue
MDPI plans the first issue of the IJGI to appear in March 2012.
Special Issues
One special issue per two months shall be set up. The topics will be supplied and discussed by and
between Wolfgang KAINZ and MDPI. The first special issue should be on the topics of the “United
Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Management”
which was held 22 to 25 November 2011 in Beijing. The guest editor will be Dr. Shirish RAVAN of
the UN SPIDER office Beijing.
Involvement of ISPRS Council and Working Groups
Wolfgang KAINZ would communicate with Council to publish some “ISPRS Position papers”
defining the state-of-the-art or presenting what is important now in ISPRS. Working Groups will be
contacted to contribute papers or edit ISPRS IJGI relevant special issues; in particular as results of
their symposia and workshops.
Promotion of the Journal
Wolfgang KAINZ will promote the journal at all relevant events he attends; Council is asked to
promote the journal, e.g., at keynote speeches and other representative events. In particular the
following actions should/will be taken to increase the visibility and attractiveness of the journal:
 Promoting the journal at the 2012 Congress in Melbourne by e.g.,
- Advertisement in the Congress program book
- Mentioning in keynote/opening speeches
- Distribution of journal leaflet in congress bag and exhibition area
- Etc.
 Preparation of a journal leaflet in cooperation with MDPI (the costs for printing need to be
discussed with MDPI; Wolfgang KAINZ will approach MDPI on that issue).
 Christopher PETTIT and Andy SMITH have been contacted by Wolfgang KAINZ concerning
the promotion of the ISPRS IJGI in the ISPRS Blog.
 An article about the journal appeared in the ISPRS e-Bulletin, Issue No 6 – 2011. Further
articles will be published announcing special issues and further relevant information.
Review Process
Wolfgang KAINZ will receive regular reports (on a weekly basis) from MDPI with submitted papers
and proposed reviewers.
Article Processing Charge-free Period
As agreed in the contract with MDPI the first two years no authors’ fees will have to be paid. Since
the contract with MDPI was signed on 8 August 2011, there were nearly no submissions in 2011, and
MDPI plans the first issue for 2012, it should be discussed to extend the ACP-free period with one
year until 31 December 2013.
Plans for 2012
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First issue in March 2012 (special issue of UN SPIDER conference)
Special issue with position papers (from Council members)
List of other special issues to be prepared shortly
Active advertisement for paper submissions through direct mailings etc.
TCs (and their WGs) will be approached for special issues and individual paper submissions
Clarification with MDPI concerning extension of APC-free period
Annex 1: Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Department of Geography and Regional Research,
University of Vienna, Universitätsstr. 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Website: https://carto.univie.ac.at/personal/wolfgang-kainz/
E-Mail: wolfgang.kainz@univie.ac.at
Interests: geographic information science; databases; fuzzy logic in GIS; spatial data infrastructure
Assistant Editor
Mr. Elvis Wang
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing,
China
Tel. +86 10 59011009; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: elvis.wang@mdpi.com
Production Editor
Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
E-Mail: pike@mdpi.com
Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Dr. Ozgun Akcay
Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geomatic Engineering, 34469
Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel. +90 212 285 61 10; Fax: +90 212 285 65 87
Website: http://www.faculty.itu.edu.tr/akcayoz/
E-Mail: akcayoz@itu.edu.tr
Interests: interoperability and open systems; spatio-temporal databases; spatial analysis, data mining, and
decision support systems
Mr. Christoph Aubrecht
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Donau-City-Str. 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 50550 4522; Fax: +43 50550 4599
Website: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/christoph.aubrecht/
E-Mail: christoph.aubrecht@ait.ac.at
Interests: integration of GIS and remote sensing; population modeling; risk and vulnerability; disaster
management; spatio-temporal aspects
Dr. Emmanuel Baltsavias
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich),
Wolfgang Pauli Str. 15, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 633 3042; Fax: +41 44 633 1101
Website: http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/general/persons/manos.html
E-Mail: manos@geod.baug.ethz.ch
Interests: data acquisition; automated analysis of image and laser data; data fusion; data matching; quality
estimation of raster geodata; DTM and DSM generation and modeling
Prof. Dr. Norbert Bartelme
Graz University of Technology, Institute of Geoinformation, Steyrergasse 30, 8010 Graz, Austria
Tel. +43 316 873 6358; Fax: +43 316 873 6845
Website: http://www.geoinformation.tugraz.at/mitarbeiter/n_bartelme_eng.htm
E-Mail: norbert.bartelme@tugraz.at
Interests: interoperability and open systems; geo-telematics; location based services visualization theory and
technology in real and virtual environments; decision support systems
Prof. Dr. Jun Chen
No.1 Baishengcun, Zizhuyuan, Beijing 100044, China
Tel. +86 10 68424072; Fax: +86 10 68424101
Website: http://ngcc.sbsm.gov.cn/laboratory/english/researchers/chenjun/chenjun-def.htm
E-Mail: chenjun@nsdi.gov.cn
Interests: geographic database update; voronoi dynamic spatial data model; spatio-temporal data model; threedimensional spatial data model, GIS spatial relationship; data and sharing services of multi-dimensional
geospatial fundamental; framework; spatial decision support system; surveying development strategy
Dr. Tao Cheng
Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel. +44 2076 792738; Fax: +44 2073 800453
Website: http://www.cege.ucl.ac.uk
E-Mail: tao.cheng@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: intelligent geographic information systems; spatio-temporal data modeling, analysis and visualization;
spatial data quality and uncertainty
Dr. Mahmoud R. Delavar
GIS Division, Department of Surveying and Geomatic Eng., College of Eng., University of Tehran, P.O.Box:
11155-4563, Tehran, Iran
Tel. +98 21 61114257; Fax: +98 21 88008837
Website: http://eng.ut.ac.ir/Departments/show_departments.asp?department=3&STATUS_ID=101&ID_FACULTY=89
E-Mail: mdelavar@ut.ac.ir
Interests: spatial data quality and GIS uncertainty assessment; spatio-temporal GIS; spatial data infrastructure;
spatio-temporal data integration/fusion; disaster management; GIS interoperability concepts; remote sensing and
GIS integration and accuracy assessment; urban change detection modeling and evaluation; digital terrain
modeling; spatio-temporal data mining; land administration systems; cadaster
Prof. Dr. Manfred Ehlers
University of Osnabrück, Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF), Barbarastr. 22b, D-49076
Osnabrück, Germany
Tel. +49 541 969 3910
Website: http://www.igf.uni-osnabrueck.de/mitarbeiter/ehlers/index.html
E-Mail: mehlers@igf.uni-osnabrueck.de
Interests: integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing; data fusion concepts;
analytical remote sensing; geoinformatics concepts; automated change detection; environmental
monitoring/information systems; 3D aspects in remote sensing and GIS
Mr. Sérgio Freire
e-GEO, Research Centre for Geography and Regional Planning, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Av. de
Berna, 26-C, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel. +351 21 790 8300
Website: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/~egeo/?q=investigador/sergio-freire
E-Mail: sfreire@fcsh.unl.pt
Interests: land use/land cover mapping and analysis; feature extraction from VHR imagery; spatio-temporal
population modeling; remote sensing for urban planning, management, and modeling
Prof. Dr. Chris Gold
Apt. 1501, 4998 de Maisonneuve West, Westmount Qc, H3Z 1N2, Canada
E-Mail: chris.gold@gmail.com
Interests: 3D GIS; spatial data structures; marine GIS; spatial models
Prof. Dr. Bin Jiang
Division of Geomatics, KTH Research School, Department of Technology and Built Environment University of
Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Website: http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/
E-Mail: bin.jiang@hig.se
Interests: geospatial analysis and modeling; structure and dynamics of urban systems; geoinformatics and
computational geography
Prof. Dr. Marinos Kavouras
National Technical University of Athens, 9, H. Polytechniou Str., 157 80 Zografos Campus, Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 772 2731; Fax: +30 210 772 2734
Website: http://www.ntua.gr/ontogeo/people/m_kavouras.htm
E-Mail: mkav@survey.ntua.gr
Interests: theoretical issues in GIScience; knowledge representation; geospatial ontologies; semantic
interoperability; spatio-temporal modelling; concept mapping; theoretical cartography
Prof. Dr. Milan Konecny
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masyryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Tel. +420 549 49 5135; Fax: +420 549 49 1061
Website: http://www.muni.cz/people/1927
E-Mail: konecny@geogr.muni.cz
Prof. Dr. Michael Leitner
Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, E-104 Howe-Russell Complex, Baton
Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Tel. +1 225 578 2963; Fax: +1 225 578 4420
Website: http://www.ga.lsu.edu/leitner.html
E-Mail: mleitne@lsu.edu
Interests: dealing with confidential geospatial information in GISc; spatio-temporal analysis and visualization;
crime modeling and mapping; geography of health
Dr. Marguerite Madden
Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS), Department of Geography, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA 30602, USA
Tel. +1 706 542 2379
Website: http://www.crms.uga.edu
E-Mail: mmadden@uga.edu
Interests: spatio-temporal vegetation analysis; remote sensing; object-based image analysis and geovisualization
Prof. Dr. Martien Molenaar
Department of Geo-information Processing, University of Twente, Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE Enschede, The
Netherlands
Tel. +31 53 4874229; Fax: +31 53 4874335
Website: http://www.itc.nl/about_itc/whoiswho/viewone.asp?Martien%20Molenaar
E-Mail: molenaar@itc.nl
Interests: GIS; spatio-temporal data modeling, multi scale approaches; uncertainty; fuzzy modeling; geo-object
based image analysis; geodesy; photogrammetry; remote sensing
Prof. Dr. Ammatzia Peled
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa Haifa 31905, Israel
Tel. +972 4 8240148; Fax: +972 4 8249605
Website: http://geo.haifa.ac.il/~peled/
E-Mail: peled@geo.haifa.ac.il
Interests: geographical information systems; remote sensing; digital cartography; digital photogrammetry; flying
and airphotography
Prof. Dr. Monika Sester
Institut für Kartographie und Geoinformatik (ikg), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstrasse 9a, 30167
Hannover, Germany
Website: http://www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/index.php?id=sester
E-Mail: monika.sester@ikg.uni-hannover.de
Interests: automation in spatial data processing (data integration, generalization, interpretation, adaptive
visualization)
Prof. Dr. Wenzhong Shi
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Website: http://www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/staff/John.Shi/
E-Mail: lswzshi@polyu.edu.hk
Interests: uncertainty modeling in spatial data and spatial analysis
Prof. Dr. Andrew Skidmore
ITC, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 53 487 44 44; Fax: +31 53 487 44 00
Website: http://www.itc.nl/about_itc/resumes/skidmore.aspx
E-Mail: skidmore@itc.nl
Interests: vegetation mapping and monitoring; wildlife habitat assessment; hyperspectral remote sensing; AI
techniques for handling geoinformation and accuracy assessment
Prof. Dr. Josef Strobl
Austrian Academy of Sciences and Centre for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A5020 Salzburg, Austria
Tel. +43 662 8044 5203; Fax: +43 662 8044 525
Website: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/zgis/strobl
E-Mail: josef.strobl@sbg.ac.at
Interests: spatial analysis; digital terrain and surface modeling; spatial data infrastructures; space and renewable
energy; eLearning and geoinformatics; spatial decision support models
Prof. Dr. Xinming Tang
Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center, No 28 Lianhuachi West Rd., Haidian Dist., Beijing,
100830, China
Website: http://124.205.237.197/portal_space/
E-Mail: tangxinming99@gmail.com
Interests: spatio-temporal GIS; DEM construction; stereo mapping; fuzzy topology and GIS
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Tikunov
Faculty of Geography, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, MSU Main Building,
119991 Moscow, Russia
Tel. +7 495 939 1339; Fax: +7 495 932 8836
E-Mail: tikunov@geogr.msu.su
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner
Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (I.P.F.), Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien),
Gusshausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43 (0) 1 58801 12225; Fax: +43 (0) 1 58801 12299
Website: http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/index.php/staff/58-wagner-wolfgang.html
E-Mail: ww@ipf.tuwien.ac.at
Interests: remote sensing; geophysical parameter retrieval; airborne laser scanning; full-waveform lidar; radar
remote sensing; soil moisture
Prof. Dr. Qiming Zhou
Department of Geography, Centre for Geo-computation Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 34115048; Fax: +852 34115990
E-Mail: qiming@hkbu.edu.hk
Interests: geographical information system (GIS); remote sensing
Dr. Sisi Zlatanova
OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 15 278 2714; Fax: +31 15 278 4422
Website: http://www.gdmc.nl/zlatanova/
E-Mail: s.zlatanova@tudelft.nl
Interests: 3D GIS; 3D indoor modeling and navigation; CityGML; 3D analysis; emergency response